Apple faces e-discovery bungle -- In its court action against Mac cline maker Psystar, a document apparently shows that Apple had no company-wide plan for archiving, saving, and deleting email. That could cause a problem in the face of e-discovery requirements if Apple cannot deliver documents that it is legally required to provide. [Source: Slashdot.org]

Sprint loses exec -- John Garcia, once head of Sprint's CDMA business, which has 70 percent of the company's customers, is out the door. [Source: Silicon Alley Insider]

Engineers get jail time -- Two Chinese engineers received one-year-long jail terms for trying to pass computer chip designs from NEC Electronics, Sun Microsystems, Transmeta, and Trident back to China in an attempt to raise money for their start-up. [Source: AP]

Open mouth, insert PR foot -- A British PR firm publicly copped to a journalist that its client, gaming company Eidos, was trying to keep game reviews from being posted early so it could manage a compilation of review scores that heavily influences sales. Will the next step to is to admit that "all is spin?" [Source: Variety's The Cut Scene Blog]

IP misconceptions -- Although IP technology has developed over time, documentation hasn't kept pace. As a result, companies build applications and protocols using assumptions that sometimes are even untrue. [Source: InfoWorld]

Erik Sherman is a widely published writer and editor who also does select ghosting and corporate work. The views expressed in this column belong to Sherman and do not represent the views of CBS Interactive. Follow him on Twitter at @ErikSherman or on Facebook.